Re: panic: double fault with 11.0-CURRENT r258504

From: Peter Holm <peter_at_holm.cc>
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 13:02:16 +0100
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 09:56:10AM +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 01:11:35PM -0800, Don Lewis wrote:
> > On 27 Nov, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 11:35:19AM -0800, Don Lewis wrote:
> > >> On 27 Nov, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > >> > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 11:02:57AM -0800, Don Lewis wrote:
> > >> >> On 27 Nov, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > >> >> > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 10:33:30AM -0800, Don Lewis wrote:
> > >> >> >> On 27 Nov, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > >> >> >> > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 09:41:36AM -0800, Don Lewis wrote:
> > >> >> >> >> On 27 Nov, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > >> >> >> >> > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 02:49:12AM -0800, Don Lewis wrote:
> > >> >> >> >> >> <http://people.freebsd.org/~truckman/doublefault2.JPG>
> > >> >> >> >> > 
> > >> >> >> >> > What is the instruction at cpu_switch+0x9b ?
> > >> >> >> >> 
> > >> >> >> >> movl 0x8(%edx),%eax
> > >> >> >> > So it is line 176 in swtch.s. Is machine still in ddb, or did you
> > >> >> >> > obtained the core ? If yes, please print out the content of words at
> > >> >> >> > 0xe4f62bb0 + 4, +8 (*), +16. Please print the content of the word at
> > >> >> >> > address (*) + 8.
> > >> >> >> 
> > >> >> >> It is still in ddb.
> > >> >> >> 
> > >> >> >> <http://people.freebsd.org/~truckman/doublefault3.JPG>, though not in
> > >> >> >> the above order.
> > >> >> > Uhm, sorry, I mistyped the last part of the instructions.
> > >> >> > 
> > >> >> > The new thread pointer is 0xd2f4e000, there is nothing incriminating.
> > >> >> > Please print the word at 0xd2f4e000+0x254 == 0xd2f4e254, which would be
> > >> >> > the address of the new thread pcb. It is load from the pcb + 8 which
> > >> >> > faults.
> > >> >> 
> > >> >> 0xf3d44d60
> > >> > Again, the pointer looks fine, and its tail is 0xd60, which is correct for
> > >> > the pcb offset in the last page of the thread stack.
> > >> > 
> > >> > Please do 'show thread 0xd2f4e000' before trying below instructions.
> > >> 
> > >> Ok, see below:
> > >>  
> > >> > What happens if you try to read word at 0xf3d44d68 ?
> > >> 
> > >> Nothing bad ...
> > >> 
> > >> <http://people.freebsd.org/~truckman/doublefault4.JPG>
> > >> 
> > > So the thread structure looks sane, the stack region is in place where
> > > it is supposed to be, all the gathered data looks self-consistent. And,
> > > the access to the faulted address from ddb does not fault.
> > > 
> > > Thread stacks can only be invalidated when the process is swapped out and
> > > kernel stack is written to swap.  Your thread flags indicate that it is
> > > in memory, and TDF_CANSWAP is not set.  I do not believe that our swapout
> > > code would invalidate stack mapping in such situation, otherwise we would
> > > have too many complaints already.
> > > 
> > > Just in case, do you use swap on this box ?
> > 
> > I do.
> > 
> > > And, as the last resort, I do understand that this sounds as giving up,
> > > do you monitor the temperature of the CPUs ? BTW, which CPUs are that,
> > > please show the cpu identification lines from the boot dmesg.
> > 
> > I don't monitor the temperature, but I do hear the CPU fan speed ramping
> > up and down when I'm building ports like this.  Even though I'm pretty
> > much keeping one core busy the whole time, the temperature must drop
> > enough at times to let the fan speed drop.
> > 
> > I can run math/mprime on this machine for a while to see if anything
> > shows up.  I also have a very similar machine (same motherboard but
> > different CPU) that I can move the drive over to and test.
> > 
> > Here's the full dmesg.boot:
> > 
> > Copyright (c) 1992-2013 The FreeBSD Project.
> > Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
> > 	The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> > FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
> > FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #63 r258614M: Tue Nov 26 00:29:01 PST 2013
> >     dl_at_scratch.catspoiler.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERICSMB i386
> > FreeBSD clang version 3.3 (tags/RELEASE_33/final 183502) 20130610
> > WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance.
> > CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+ (2500.06-MHz 686-class CPU)
> >   Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x60fb1  Family = 0xf  Model = 0x6b  Stepping = 1
> >   Features=0x178bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT>
> >   Features2=0x2001<SSE3,CX16>
> >   AMD Features=0xea500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,RDTSCP,LM,3DNow!+,3DNow!>
> >   AMD Features2=0x11f<LAHF,CMP,SVM,ExtAPIC,CR8,Prefetch>
> 
> The errata list for the Athlon 64 X2 is quite long.  Do you have latest
> BIOS ?  I am not sure if AMD provides standalone firmware update blocks
> for their CPUs.  If any Linux distribution ships updates for AMD CPUs,
> it might be useful to load the update with cpucontrol(8).  Even if we
> do not hit a CPU bug, it would provide me with more certainity that we
> are not chasing ghost.
> 
> Another things to try, in vain, is to compile kernel with gcc or disable
> SMP.
> 
> Peter, could you, please, try to reproduce the issue ?  It does not look
> like a random hardware failure, since in all cases, it is curthread access
> which is faulting.  The issue is only reported by Don, and so far only
> for i386 SMP.

I'm not seeing this issue on my AMD Phenom(tm) 9150e Quad-Core
Processor with i386/r258703.

- Peter
Received on Sat Nov 30 2013 - 11:03:18 UTC

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